So I'm doing an "epic rap battle", themed after the epic rap battles of history on youtube, for a classic civilization class as my creative project
The rappers will be the poets Homer (The Odyssey and Iliad) and Virgil (aeneid)
I need to think up both positive things the rappers can say about themselves, and negative things the opponents can say to rag on the opposition

I'll be giving around 50fg for each good idea and up to 150 fg per paired line of a rap that I could use

I can help out with this. Do you want to make it sort of a rap battle comparing and contrasting characters or similarities and differences in the books? such as, Dido from the Aeneid embodying characteristics of Circe, Calypso, Nausicaa and the Cyclops from the Odyssey? Or what type of rap exactly? Explaining the stories?

My original idea was to do characters within their stories, but my professor liked comparing their individual achievements more
Like I was going to have Homer mention how Virgil was just copying him (as an insult)
Or like Homer saying that even though he is blind, he can still "see" Virgil is a knockoff of his own (homer's) history

Obviously the lines need to rhyme, but even just ideas on what to say would be helpful
It's less of a story telling (but they can definitely brag about indivudual parts of their stories and how great they are), and more of a "this is why I'm a better epic writer than you are"
I kind of want to tie in modern things like Virgil saying he "Pulled a hercules on you and turned a zero to a hero (referring to Aeneas and referrencing Disney's "zero to hero" phrase in their hercules movie). Since Homer portrays Aeneas as a coward, and Virgil as a hero.
Or Virgil saying something along the lines that "You Greeks may have won some battles (troy), but the Romans won the war. Your heros left home for 10 whole years just to get back a whore (helen)."

Virgil slamming Homer.
Sorry forgot the names of the people

Something about blowing so hard like the wind in the bottle.
Something about being blind to some fact like a log in a cyclops eye.

your talking bout hades, you think your styx is nuts?
thats a nitty-gritty-funland with my stick in your butt.

you're asking people, whoms story to choose?
dude, your story is as well known as your Tantalus.

im was a writer, from my crib to my grave,
you've been a worker, been just Augustus slave!

This post was edited by Wirbelschwein on Apr 4 2015 03:48am

I'll see if i can work these in somehow. If so, I'll send yall fg

Couldn't edit my original post but..
FORGOT TO MENTION, BUT I GO TO BYU, SO THE RAPS CAN'T BE CRUDE OR CURSE

Need some more ideas folks
Really would like some lines that tie in culture today, or culture in greek/roman times
And the lines need to rhyme

So this Aineias, a hero you say?
damn, as far as i remember he just run away.

I can use this. Good idea. Sending fg bro

thx sir
glad it helped